Who killed the Liberal OC Blog?

The Liberal OC blog is on life support…

What happened to the Liberal OC Blog?  They used to be an OK read, but after their founder, Mike Lawson, left they changed, and not for the better.  Current Lib OC editors Dan Chmielewski and Chris Leah Prevatt have completely wrecked their blog.

But don’t take my word for it, just check out their numbers.  Last November they had over 30,000 visits to their blog, according to Sitemeter.  This month they are at 6,400 visits, with little time left to make up the difference, and Thanksgiving looming on the horizon.

What happened?  Who killed the Liberal OC?

They tried to fix the problem by “acquiring” Claudio Gallegos, the editor of the dead Sunny D blog a few months ago – but their numbers have dropped even more since their acquisition. Today they barely crested 200 visits.

The Orange Juice blog’s readership has jumped over the past year

For comparison’s sake, the Orange Juice had over 1,200 site visits today.  Last November we had over 41,000 site visits.  This month we are headed for over 46,000 site visits.  Our daily average is over 1,600 site visits, while the Lib OC comes in at just over 350 hits a day.

Folks are taking note.  Blognetnews dropped the Lib OC from their weekly top political blog ranking this week.  We came in number one.  Again.

It is hard to say exactly what killed the Lib OC, but let’s start with their tagline, “Challenging Orange County’s Right-Wing Noise Machine.”  That sounds great, but in reality Dan and Chris often shill for Republicans.  They are pals with Red County editor Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham, even though he was a major backer of the anti-gay marriage initiative, Prop. 8.  And even though he outed the names of victims of molestation.

Dan and Chris are also Jannies – they run cover for Republican Supervisor Janet Nguyen on a regular basis.  They helped her defeat one of their own, Democrat Hoa Van Tran, and have not stopped shilling for her ever since.

Just look at how they went nuts after Trannie Andy Quach had a DUI.  We covered that story too, but the Lib OC went ballistic.  But they have refused to cover a story we broke – that Supervisor Janet Nguyen’s husband’s restaurant, Lee’s Sandwiches in Stanton, has had over 50 County health violations since they opened their doors!

The boys at the Lib OC have also steadfastly refused to cover the fact that Supervisor Nguyen’s chief of staff, Andrew Do, ran for the Garden Grove City Council as a carpetbagger.  And he is a co-owner of the often-cited Lee’s Sandwiches in Stanton.

Now Dan is loyally supporting Anaheim Councilwoman Lorri Galloway, even though she is running for the Board of Supervisors as a carpetbagger, and even though she appointed Talibani Republican Ed Perez, who is anti-gay, to the Anaheim Planning Commission.  And Ed’s wife Sue is running against State Senator Lou Correa.

You might recall that Galloway backed his Republican opponent, Lynn Daucher, a few years ago.  And Dan has admitted to sending a campaign contribution to Galloway this year.

I have a feeling that real Democrats have had enough of the Lib OC.  They have an alternative in the far superior OC Progressive Blog.  And they have us.  Our blog features two of the top liberal voices in Orange County, in Vern Nelson and Duane Roberts, not to mention our lone lady blogger, the inimitable progressive Red Vixen.

What about other readers who are not Democrats?  Why would they want to read the partisan hackery that is the Lib OC?  Apparently few people find them very compelling at all.

To make matters even worse, Dan and Chris recently lost control of two URLs – www.liberalocblog.com and www.theliberalocblog.com.  Their numbers are going to suffer even more now!

It is sad to see the train wreck these two have made of what used to be a fun read back when Lawson was at the helm of the Lib OC.